- “Malfunctioning NHS app for Covid vaccine status causes travel delays” – Problems accessing the Covid pass has caused travellers to be turned away from flight and ferry, reports the Guardian.
- “Ditch ‘illogical’ Covid travel tests for under-11s, ministers urged” – England is the only country in Europe to require children younger than 11 to be tested on their return, exempting only those four or under, reports the Telegraph.
- “A response to the House of Commons’ pro-lockdown report” – “The report makes no attempt to evaluate the scientific evidence on lockdown efficacy, gives no consideration to focused protection as an alternative strategy, and shows no interest in weighing up the total costs and benefits of lockdown,” writes Noah Carl in his latest Substack update.
- “Locking down harder and faster is not the right conclusion” – “A door has been opened and we have walked into a place in which our health and well-being is worse, we are poorer and we are less free, in exchange for dubious claims of safety,” writes Jamie Walden in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Is the economic recovery still on track?” – “If inflationary pressures continue to surge (a glance at yesterday’s labour market update gives no reason to think they’ll let up soon), the Bank of England may have no choice but to act,” writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “The U.K.’s National ‘Crisis’: Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2008 Levels” – Looking at the U.K., the overall death rate for 2020 is not unprecedented, and some of the increase in the death rate is likely the result of an incomprehensibly bad Covid policy, writes Mark Avis in Mises Wire.
- “Merck Ignores Molnupiravir’s Cytotoxicity” – “The broad use of Molnupiravir is a global catastrophic risk because the increased rate of coronavirus mutations is likely to create more dangerous variants,” writes ‘LeoG’ in TrialSite.
- “Southwest Airlines pilots and staff are flying in the face of corporate and Government vaccine mandates – and about time, too” – Southwest Airlines’ top brass can deny the massive delays they’ve been experiencing have anything to do with their insistence staff take Covid shots or lose their job till they are blue in the face… but no one is buying it, writes R.M. Huffman in RT.
- “Catholic Troops Can Refuse Covid Vaccine: Military Archbishop” – U.S. troops who are Catholic can refuse to comply with a Covid vaccine mandate if they believe getting vaccinated will “violate his conscience“, says the military’s archbishop.
- “Top virologist says Delta defeated, predicts 6 plus months of Covid quiet for Israel” – New variants will be held at bay for now, says Rivka Abulafia-Lapid, whose optimism comes as number of new serious Covid cases per day almost halves over two weeks, reports the Times of Israel.
- “Murray backs calls for mandatory vaccination to enter Australian Open” – The Victoria Government announced earlier this month that all professional athletes in the state must now be double jabbed by late November – a move that Andy Murray is fully supportive of.
- “Victorian post office licensee backs down over refusal to get Covid jab” – Angela Spedding had cited freedom of choice for her refusal to get the vaccine but now says she has booked an appointment for next week, reports the Guardian.
- “Should genetics make us socialist?” – “The Genetic Lottery, by University of Texas psychologist Kathryn Paige Harden, is a good book whose central ethical argument is unpersuasive,” writes Bo Winegard in the Washington Examiner.
- “Insulate Britain is in bed with the establishment” – It’s no surprise that one of its activists is married to a TfL boss, writes Ben Pile in Spiked.
- “M25 protests: Insulate Britain activists arrested after defying court order” – Insulate Britain protesters were dragged off the road by frustrated motorists in angry scenes by the M25 after the demonstrators blocked major routes despite injunctions granted by the High Court, reports the Times.
- “The madness of the green agenda” – Even as gas prices soar, the Government is planning to hike bills even higher, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Cambridge Student Union trans guide claims being woman is not down to ‘biology’” – Cambridge Students’ Union’s “How To Spot TERF Ideology” accuses some feminists of being “transphobic” and linked to the “far right”, reports MailOnline.
- “Why is British Airways banning ‘ladies and gentlemen’?” – “You might think that after 18 months of turbulence, B.A. has more important things to worry about,” writes Annabel Denham in the Spectator.
- “Professor Kathleen Stock was abused by students accusing her of transphobia but her union chose to back students” – Toby tells talkRADIO: “Gender ideology has spread across universities. You are branded a transphobe, and activists will come for you.”
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Let’s have no more lying nonsense about these driver shortages and consequent supply chain problems being “due to Brexit”. It’s clearly down to covid panic nonsense and trade union bullshit, on top of years of undervaluing drivers because of the easy availability of foreign labour.
“But tens of thousands of HGV licence applications are waiting to be approved by the DVLA, and the pile-up could get worse if workers agree to more strikes.
The PCS union has been calling for fewer staff to work at the site, allowing more to work from home, despite the DVLA insisting it has taken measures to ensure the safety of workers.
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We want a deal that has Covid safety measures at its heart, appropriate reward and recognition for staff working throughout the pandemic and a workplace recovery plan, agreed with the union.”
Bunch of greedy, corrupt, manipulative cowards.
Backlog of 56,000 HGV licence applications could grow even bigger as DVLA staff ballot for more strikes in Covid safety row
DVLA workers from the PCS union will vote on strike action in coming weeks
Action led by PCS boss Mark Serwotka began in February over Covid safety fears
Currently, 2,500 staff – around 40 per cent – are turning up at the DVLA offices
“Critics, however, have accused the union’s leaders of exaggerating once-justified but now spurious safety fears for political gain. ”
“Once justified” my backside! DM still backing the panickers’ rubbish.
56,000 hgv license applications waiting for approval! Even if a certain percentage usually/routinely get rejected that really casts a very different light on the lorry driver and delivery crisis which is supposedly a huge factor in the supply lines disruption and shortages. Thank you very much for posting!
Indeed, as has been pointed out here recently, there’s a driver shortage in continental Europe too. And supply chain problems in the US.
56,000 people who have paid to get trained, have been driving on the roads (under supervision, but what’s an instructor going to do if a rig goes wild?) and are considered ready to be tested by DVSA approved instructors.
The only thing stopping them driving right now are worthless parasitical workshy sneering entitled mouse-nudgers.
Commerce and industry happens despite government, not because of it.
And the 3,500 who are at home (certainly NOT working) cannot handle any paper applications or medical certificates. The whole world knows that Cronaflu is not spread by touching surfaces; apart from their union who of course know better – when it comes to their members doing no work but still hoovering up taxpayers’ money. Or perhaps these 3,500 shirkers don’t open their post, read a newspaper, touch their lottery tickets, unpack any parcels, wipe their backsides etc etc etc??
This union has no morals at all; they are just like the unions who manufactured demarcation disputes which slowed down ship building activties in WW II.
Hilarious. MSM reporter interviewing victorious NASCAR driver Brandon Brown tries to cover up crowd chanting “Fuck Joe Biden” by pretending they’re chanting “let’s go Brandon”, and creates a viral anti-Dem and anti-msm (but I repeat myself) meme:
‘Let’s go, Brandon’: The right’s new anti-Biden chant comes from a NASCAR broadcast where NBC Sports didn’t want to drop an f-bomb
Instagram censors evolutionary biologist for posting a chart from transgender study by prominent science journal that showed biological men are stronger than biological women in a range of Olympic sports
“the post of the scientific chart was removed from Facebook-owned Instagram for violating Community Guidelines on hate speech or symbols. “
Note that what he posted was a chart of information from a published scientific study.
This issue has for a long time been a bizarrely controversial one for wokeists. It is quite simply incontrovertible that men are on average considerably stronger than women. They simply are. In upper body/grip strength terms, the average man is stronger than most women, even women who are elite athletes. This is not a function of activity or upbringing, though those factors can increase or decrease the difference, it is a function of basic biological facts.
This would never even have been questioned in sane times. Nor would it have been regarded as demeaning to women. It’s just how things are. But wokeists seem to take it as a threat to their faith and to their radical social objectives and are determined to shout it down. People, as in this case, have been accused of hate speech for merely pointing it out.
It’s a measure of the insanity of our culture on these politically correct topics that significant numbers of people find reality unacceptable.
Yep. It really is extraordinary/bizarre, like returning to an era when the official/establishment line was that the world was flat, and/or that the sun revolved around the earth, etc. Really peculiar to see a dark ages happening/the process of its encroachment, like that story by Isaac Asimov, “Nightfall”.
PS. A very profound alteration/revolution in the parameters of human society and culture, a strange shift in what it defines as reality/as real. Like resurrecting angels, demons, ancestor spirits, etc. Really weird.
I suppose it felt as peculiar to people back then, the ideas of science.
But has the change ever seemed to be going backwards before now? A retrograde step? …
…. What if it isn’t, can’t be simply dismissed as a step backwards, anti-enlightenment, but is instead a move aligned with our increasing use of IT, the loss of use of/disconnection from our physical bodies?
Maybe it is a cultural/mental revolution to accompany/rationally adjusting to the fact that many people, influential numbers perhaps, live increasingly online, where all that matters is your “avatar”?
Is it in fact a step “forwards”, into a transhuman and/or cloud world, the 22nd/23rd century?
And is it us who are like the people who clung to their beliefs in angels, demons, a flat earth etc? Are we becoming anachronistic, old hat, in our perception of reality?
It feels like people with autism/aspergers are designing our future on the tech side and post-modernist cultists are detonating culture and society on the arts side.
“What if it isn’t, can’t be simply dismissed as a step backwards, anti-enlightenment, but is instead a move aligned with our increasing use of IT, the loss of use of/disconnection from our physical bodies?
Maybe it is a cultural/mental revolution to accompany/rationally adjusting to the fact that many people, influential numbers perhaps, live increasingly online, where all that matters is your “avatar”?
Is it in fact a step “forwards”, into a transhuman and/or cloud world, the 22nd/23rd century?”
Now that’s what I call pessimism!
And we are like the people in the shelter after the end of Nightfall, emerging as sane, civilised beings into a world where everybody else has gone stark raving mad.
Men. Are. Stronger. Than. Women?
Can’t be true. If it’s true, how have women managed to dominate, bully, subjugate and enslave men, and confine them to the dreary routine of kinder-kirche-küche, throughout pretty well the whole of human history, eh?
Having their cake and eating it as well is the hallmark of ideological zealots I suppose.
In truth, it’s been a feature of human history that those who do the fighting tend to end up calling the shots, from early warrior elites, through Roman legionaries and Praetorians deciding who gets to be Emperor, to medieval and Renaissance knights and successful mercenaries setting themselves up as nobility.
When I was at university doing a BA I chose to do a module on medieval history (not my subject). I forget exactly the details, I may be wrong about some, but I had to write a long essay that included something to do with gender disparity, roles and productivity in agriculture. One reason I gave, without citation, for the fact that different jobs were done by different sexes and productivity was different is because men are on average physically stronger than women. Guess what? When I got my essay back after having been marked I noticed that it contained a written warning as to how it could be construed as sexism, how it is not a grounded assumption, blah blah, and that in future I should be more cautious or people could get the wrong idea! I didn’t say anything other than the fact that men are stronger on average than women! The marker was a man by the way.
The above isn’t the only time I’ve experienced this shock at the idea men may be stronger on average than women. I’ve experienced it in conversation too. It has always disturbed me because it betrays how far people can drift from observable reality. You don’t need to cite a peer reviewed paper to see that women don’t come with the physique of The Rock. You also don’t need one to see that there are no women built remotely like the top competitors in World’s Strongest Man. Why do men and women have different dietary requirements for exercise? Why are women shorter and lighter than men on average? Why have women almost always done lighter labour than men historically and in the present day? Oh, sorry, yeah, it’s because of institutional sexism or something.
In one instance of conversation the woman in question was much shorter than average and very slightly built. I was left somewhat confused as to how it could be lost on her that pretty much every single man she encountered was much bigger and taller than her. The mind boggles.
“When I was at university“
When was that, roughly, as a matter of interest? My feeling is this is something that began back in the 1990s among feminists, but has built up hugely over the past decade or two with the full flowering of the woke ideology.
“it betrays how far people can drift from observable reality“
Clearly ideological need is stronger than observable reality, for quite a few people.
However there is another aspect which Amtrup touched on briefly, which is that so much of the “reality” that people experience nowadays is not reality at all,but rather tv, film and computer game constructs. There has been a huge push to show female fighter characters fighting on more or less equal terms with men in our film and art worlds.
I think this has helped warp younger people’s perceptions noticeably, on this topic.
This would have been around 2009, or 2008 at the earliest. A pretty reputable university.
I think the fictional aspect is very important. It’s standard practice now to have female characters who are as physically strong, or stronger, than their male counterparts. Many people’s concept of reality is based on depictions and narratives, not actual experience or observation.
This is indeed particularly marked in the young.
ITEM: “Murray backs calls for mandatory vaccination to enter Australian Open” – The Victoria Government announced earlier this month that all professional athletes in the state must now be double jabbed by late November – a move that Andy Murray is fully supportive of.
Might be the only way Murray could win an Open if the top men’s players are ruled out for exercising their right to a make a personal medical decision but if the latter are barred at the border by Evil Dan that would considerably devalue the achievement, would it not?
Speaking of new frontiers in coercion to get the Vaxx, the political boss of the Northern Territory has announced that employees who interact with the public will need to be stabbed or not allowed back to work and, in addition, face a $5,000 fine (around £10,000) The same will apply for all future boosters. Workers have 30 days from today to comply. All workers in hospitality, banking, retail, supermarket, receptionists, hairdressers, beauty therapists and the like will be affected – so pretty much a majority of the workforce. The NT’s top cop went all Covid drama queen, saying that the “trade-off” if people remain unvaxxed “is my people literally walking around collecting bodies who passed away from Covid”.
Meanwhile, in New South Wales, the Ghost of Glad the Impaler (Gladys Berejiklian, ex State Premier) haunts the place with, in addition to the stick of a Vaccine Passport, a carrot is being dangled in ‘remote communities’ (code for Aboriginal settlements, where vaccine ‘hesitancy’ is high following the death of a number of revered tribal elders very soon after injection) by allowing any police, government or local council fines to be waived in return for them getting stabbed.
A shame about the tennis. Positively sinister about the working class and Indigenous people.
Andy Murray’s heavy statist political views have surfaced many times. What is happening in the NT is a crime against humanity. Gunner orders supermarket workers to get the gene therapy, regardless of age or prior immune status, and some will certainly die. He is directly responsible for these deaths, which any normal court would surely regard as manslaughter.
Yes, very grim. I wonder if we may be about to see a die-off to rival, proportionately, that which occurred shortly after the Neolithic Revolution, in the aftermath of the invention of agriculture, when apparently a huge percentage of the ( then still small of course ) population died as a result of eating the new diet high in the then only recently mutated glutenous grains/cereals ( the wild grass which constituted the earliest/first forms of wheat, rye and barley after the last ice age ), and was accompanied by an apparently dramatic decline in the quality of pottery among other things for a period lasting hundreds of years ( a thousand or more even ).
The top 4 men in pro tennis have all made statements regarding the vaxxes, that they are against coercion or they won’t be getting vaxxed or they refuse to disclose their status. Hope they dig their heels in. Djokovic seems like he has balls.
The Tennis authorities should simply move the event. Last time they were kicking the crowd out part way through games, a complete farce. Using Tennis for political reasons. Without top players the event is worth nothing.
Can you get out of there? The NT guy seemed even more demented than the lad Andrews. What they say is complete garbage as well. No doubt they sell what has happened here, really though Australia already had both the space and the tight border controls, we didn’t pre CCP Virus. Plus CCP Virus has never been as bad here as the media portray.
If you can invent some puerile drivel like “transphobia” and then have the entire chatterati talking about it non-stop for ten years, turns out no one notices when you destroy national currencies and cultures and set up a global police state.
That’s a very transphobic comment. Into the corner with you! You’re cancelled!
On our way through Woking to serve notice of liability on 5 institutions yesterday
VIDEO LINK
https://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell/13040
I found this a good read Brandon Smith: If You Don’t Respect My Freedoms, I Don’t Respect Your Pronouns Although I don’t agree with everything written.
I will not be forced or coerced into lying to myself or anyone else to save someone’s feelings or facilitate, delusions & or mental illness. Gender is a academic fabrication. There is only sex.
Let’s go Brandon!
“Others, like author JK Rowling, have not been as lucky. And I suspect if Dave Chappelle was white it would be a different story.
Sometimes people in the middle of the totem pole can get away with criticizing another group in the progressive stack, but if you’re a straight white person there are no allowances.”
Who can honestly doubt that? Who can honestly pretend they believe that if Chappelle were white he could have gotten away with saying what he says and still be employed anywhere? He would be like Andrew Lawrence, barred from respectable work by virtue of his skin colour (because if he were black or some other privileged “minority” group member he could get away with saying what he says to some degree).
This is the world or intolerance and racism created by the left over the past few decades – the culmination of trends that began on the political left in the 1990s with political correctness and metastasized into the systemic wokeism that sickens our society.
“I will not be forced or coerced into lying to myself or anyone else to save someone’s feelings or facilitate, delusions & or mental illness. Gender is a academic fabrication. There is only sex.”
There seem to be two mainstream positions on pronoun usage.
The woke zealot (now the dominant mainstream ideology) position is that it is a “hate crime” to use the wrong pronoun and special minority groups get to decide for themselves what the appropriate pronoun is and impose it on others.
The “normie” mainstream position is that it’s basic politeness to kowtow to these passive aggressive idiots, and declining to do so is “offensive” – a term that has now been weaponised by its introduction into law and the routine sacking of people who breach its terms.
The right position, by contrast, in this situation, is to refuse to bow to this kind of moral blackmail, if for no other reason than that such pressure should be resisted.
Of course gender is artificial; a table is feminine in French as is a chair; but un chien and une chienne are male and female dogs. German has three genders masculine, feminine and neuter.
Preparing the way for restrictions to be imposed shortly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51205344
“Spain’s Health Minister declares mask mandates will be kept in place to control flu: “Las máscaras llegaron para quedarse, al menos mientras tengamos influenze.”
“Masks are here to stay, at least as long we have influenza.””
Gosh. Who could ever have predicted that?
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1448427689904259075
So, forever then?
One of the reasons I hated it so much from the start was that I recognised that once these things are normalised, it’s devilish hard to get rid of them. That applies to a lot more than just the idiot-bagging.
My thoughts exactly. I kept telling people on day one that everything they did would be permanent.
For a deeper expose of problems with Merck’s dodgy new COVID drug Molnupiravir. https://mauiindependent.org/scientists-question-safety-of-mercks-new-covid-wonder-drug/